WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:04.799 You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:05.679 six forty. 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:10.439 KF I am a six forty bill handle here. December two, 4 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.720 last month. Boy, this year has zipped by. We always 5 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:16.719 say that, don't we. Oh my god, it's going so quickly. 6 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.079 I can't believe where this year is gone. And there's 7 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:22.359 an entire theory about that. Because when you were a kid, 8 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:24.600 you know, remember when we left, you had three months 9 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:26.039 off vacation. 10 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:27.079 It seemed forever. 11 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:29.719 Now three months goes by in a blink, because it's 12 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:31.359 a percentage of how long you've lived. 13 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:33.479 I think it is where three. 14 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:38.079 Months, you know, just is done, and it's what percentage 15 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:40.039 of your life is a year? 16 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:40.399 Now? 17 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:45.079 Okay, let's oh, here's what I want to talk about. 18 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:46.079 This was big news. 19 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:50.320 And Neil yesterday texted me seconds after I found out 20 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:52.719 because I get alerts and you get alerts, and that 21 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.600 is Joe Biden hunt pardon his son Hunter? 22 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:58.479 And was I surprised? 23 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:01.039 Yeah, because I actually believed Joe Biden when he said, 24 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:04.480 under no circumstances will I pardon Hunter? Absolutely not. I 25 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.120 mean he said it over and over again. Nope, not 26 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:08.400 going to do it. 27 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:10.200 Just is not going to happen. Of course he did it. 28 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:14.040 Now and there's a question I have, and I'm going 29 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:17.840 to ask this of Wayne coming up at eight thirty, 30 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:22.239 do they have a case? Because Wayne understands this issue 31 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.439 more than most. I mean, he happens to have been 32 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.439 in the justice system, the criminal justice system of the 33 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:31.400 Department of Justice for twenty eight years, and boy does 34 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:34.439 he know his stuff. So what Joe Biden does is 35 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:39.480 issue a full and unconditional pardon for Hunter. And the 36 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.159 reason is that there was this legal cloud that has 37 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:50.239 hungover Hunter for several years, and that in fact, the attack, 38 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:53.719 the criminal attack, the judicial attack. 39 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:55.319 On Hunter, was politically motivated. 40 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:01.120 And here is where comparison is made with Hunter and 41 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:02.560 President to be. 42 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:05.400 Donald Trump. 43 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:09.080 Donald Trump has always argued that his the attack on 44 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:11.400 him has been politically motivated, that was it. 45 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:13.120 He's done nothing wrong. 46 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:18.960 The people in that overran the capital did nothing wrong, 47 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.759 and he's gonna probably pardon the vast majority of them, 48 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:23.159 as a matter of fact, certainly in a pardon the 49 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:28.000 vast majority of them. Here is the problem is that 50 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.680 if you want to give credibility, I can see where 51 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:37.879 Donald Trump argues that he was attacked politically, and I 52 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:41.520 think the severity of what Donald Trump did versus the 53 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:43.080 severity of what Hunter. 54 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.000 Biden did are night and day. But the argument that 55 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:50.280 Trump was attacked politically holds water. 56 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:57.560 The argument that Hunter was attacked politically, it was Biden's 57 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.800 Department of Justice did this, his own Department of Justice 58 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:06.759 that politically went after Hunter. I mean, really, now, why 59 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.000 did they go after a Hunter? Well, I'm going to 60 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.560 tell you what I feel about it is that President Biden, 61 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.000 like most other presidents, there was a firewall between the 62 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:18.599 presidency and the Department of Justice. There doesn't have to be, 63 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:23.000 but that is simply procedure, and it's the way it's 64 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.719 been for years and years. You stay out of it. 65 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:28.960 The president does not tell the Department of Justice what 66 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:32.360 to do in criminal cases. That's going to change completely 67 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:37.639 come January twentieth and under that a special prosecutor was 68 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:42.000 named because of the issue alone, the political issue as 69 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.039 a matter of fact, under Merit gar Garland, and the 70 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:50.159 entire argument that let's not make it political. A special 71 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:54.599 prosecutor independent goes after Hunter Biden to prove the case. 72 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:03.039 That is a huge difference, and so Biden saying this 73 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:04.000 was a political attack. 74 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:05.759 Of course, there were political attacks on Hunter. 75 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:08.080 It was a huge political attack, but that was by 76 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.280 the Republicans and it didn't have anything to do with 77 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:16.399 a department going after Hunter Biden for crimes. He pled guilty. 78 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:20.759 He pled guilty to tax evasion. He didn't pay one 79 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:23.600 point four million dollars that he owed on taxes that 80 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:28.480 he spent on cocaine and hookers and strippers, and I 81 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:32.360 mean he has had riproaring good time or bad time. 82 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:36.199 And then he was absolutely guilty of a gun infraction. 83 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:40.439 He bought a gun and he put on the forum, 84 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:43.879 I do not use drugs. I am not a drug user, 85 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:47.279 and he clearly was. He admitted he was, and so 86 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.759 they nabbed him on that. Now, how big a deal 87 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:52.439 is that, Well, he had that gun for eleven days 88 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:54.439 and it was never used in any crime at all, 89 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.959 was never used for anything. And so the argument is 90 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.199 he wouldn't have been tagged anyway with that, and the 91 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:07.120 tax situation was pretty serious. But again here is the 92 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:11.720 argument between the two, and that is that what Hunter 93 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:17.040 Biden did, had he not been Joe Biden's son, he 94 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.439 would not have been charged and it would be let 95 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:25.000 go because people in the same position as he is 96 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:27.959 guilty of the same crimes. Pleading guilty under the same 97 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:34.600 circumstances would not be charged. Didn't matter because Dad went 98 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.680 ahead and pardoned him unconditionally. This is why I'm going 99 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:40.959 to ask Wayne this at eight thirty. Usually as do 100 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:42.879 they have a case, and Wayne goes through the cases. 101 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:45.199 But today I want to spend a segment talking about 102 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:50.839 the legality here. Is any of this true? That Hunter Biden, 103 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:53.519 but for being the President's son, would never be in 104 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:58.000 the same position. And the President said in a lengthy 105 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:01.600 statement the reason he's part of his son. I wish 106 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.879 he had just said because he's my son. You know, 107 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:11.120 that's the way it goes, you know, Arnold Schwarzenegger pardoned 108 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:14.160 or commuted. That sends of Fabio Nunez, who was the 109 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.399 head of the Assembly, who was Speaker of the Assembly 110 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:20.519 of California, and he was now outright and he said, hey, 111 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:24.800 I did it for a friend. It's that simple, you know. Okay, 112 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.839 how do you argue with that? And I wish that 113 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.040 Biden had said, hey, he's my son. I have the 114 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.000 power to piden him, to pardon him. I don't want 115 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:35.720 him to go to jail. And that's what I can do. 116 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:37.720 You know, I would do the same for you if 117 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:41.040 you or my son, but you're not. You know, it's 118 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:41.680 real simple. 119 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.959 You know, if my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather, 120 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:45.839 but she's not. 121 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.720 It's that simple. Does that analogy work, by the way, 122 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:50.439 I think it does. 123 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:53.879 Well. You got to say balls, buddy, I did. 124 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:55.600 I did balls to the wall. 125 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.720 So anyway this ends up with complete hypocrisy. I can 126 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.800 see him doing it. I would probably do the same 127 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.519 thing for my kid, except just be honest about it, 128 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.879 say hey, too bad, it's my kid and he has balls. 129 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:12.720 I would do the same for my daughter who doesn't. 130 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:19.279 There is a guy by the name of John Collins, Black, 131 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:23.680 very interesting guy, and he early on got involved in 132 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:29.079 bitcoin when it was pennies, and obviously he's got a 133 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:34.240 ton of money, and he's been a lifelong fantasy guy, games, 134 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.920 dungeons and dragons, all of that since childhood. And so 135 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:44.399 by twenty fifteen is a musician, successful entrepreneur, successful, looking 136 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:44.720 for a. 137 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:45.439 Change of pace. 138 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.839 And he said, I want to do a project and 139 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:52.360 I want to connect with my younger imagination. I want 140 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:54.240 to go back to when I was basically a kid. 141 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.879 So he was motive motivated by a treasure hunt launched 142 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:05.600 in twenty twenty by Forest fen and Forest Finn published 143 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:10.959 all the clues of this treasure hunt, and obviously they 144 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:15.319 were obscure enough where it took some real real doing. 145 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:17.040 By the way, I don't know if that was found. 146 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:18.240 Do we know if that was found? 147 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:23.439 The story doesn't say if the original single chest hidden 148 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:31.439 in the Rocky Mountains. Multiple groups of people went across 149 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:33.360 the country trying to figure this out. In the Rocky 150 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.440 Mountains it was I guess it was found and someone 151 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:40.759 picked up a million dollars. Well what this guy does, 152 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:44.080 Collins Black says, Okay, first of all, I want a 153 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:47.879 bunch of chests, so he five is what he produced, 154 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:51.360 and that's to give in different parts of the country, 155 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:54.200 and people know which part of the country a chest 156 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:54.799 is in. 157 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:57.200 And what he. 158 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:02.279 Did is he produced there's measure inside and it is 159 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:06.399 a book, very clever. And what he does it's even 160 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:10.440 to entertain people who aren't looking for the treasure. It's 161 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:11.600 supposedly that good. 162 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:13.960 I haven't read enough about it. 163 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:19.279 But and this is the CNN story, The Treasure Box, 164 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:22.720 the five boxes containing sixty five rare items weird it's 165 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:28.039 not just money, gold and precious metals, and just what 166 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.840 he thought were kinds of treasures that people would go for, 167 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:39.000 and what are they. It's really interesting as to what 168 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:42.440 he has decided. First of all, it's a custom design 169 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:45.360 puzzle box, and I'm looking at it, and there are 170 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:47.600 instructions for unlocking. 171 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:49.120 The box itself. 172 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:52.440 And each chapter of the book contains clues leading to 173 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:55.159 one of the five chests, and he says, anyone can 174 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:58.519 find the treasure. All the clues you need are in 175 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:03.000 the book. And to make sure there were no leaks, 176 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:08.120 he worked with very few strategists and editors to avoid 177 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:13.200 any leaks. He wouldn't tell his wife where the treasures were. 178 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.600 He said, I couldn't consult with other people because I 179 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.039 didn't want them to have the burden of knowing. 180 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:23.960 And so there was no clear blueprint for doing this. 181 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.799 So he experimented through trial and error, and he was 182 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:32.440 programming the difficulty of the clues. It's almost like the 183 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:37.919 New York Times crossword puzzle section, where on Monday. 184 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.519 It's fairly easy, and then it gets more and more. 185 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:45.919 Difficult, and by Sunday, very few people can figure out 186 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:47.600 the entire puzzle. 187 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:48.120 By the way. 188 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.360 Just an aside. Bill Clinton huge puzzle fan. He does 189 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:55.919 crossword puzzles like crazy. John Stewart another one who is 190 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.440 absolutely nuts about crossword puzzles. 191 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:02.639 But back to this story. 192 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:05.120 And there's treasure inside this book has already created this 193 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.279 huge buzz, thousands of participants gathering on discussion channels to 194 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:14.639 share their their theories. Some are convinced they've pinpointed the 195 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:20.519 states where their treasure is located. Uh and he said, 196 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.759 there's no dangerous underwater explanation, there's no climbing, there's no 197 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:28.080 entering private property, and anyone of average health can travel 198 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:28.799 to the sites. 199 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:29.519 No digging. 200 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:32.919 He said, I want the treasure to hunt to be demanding, 201 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.000 and I do hope and think it may take a 202 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.799 little while, but I don't want this to take forever. 203 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:44.039 And if they are not found for several years, he 204 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:46.960 will then release additional clues or. 205 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:53.600 Maybe even a sequel to his book. Ah ha, there's 206 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.879 as madness to his method. 207 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:01.360 To his madness, oress to his method, well said, thank you. 208 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.639 There's a sapphire and diamond brooch earned by that was 209 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:08.840 worn by Jackie Kennedy during her time in. 210 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:09.440 The White House. 211 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:14.639 What he did Colins Black has meticulously curated the treasures 212 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:19.399 to create a wide range of interests. So what Colins 213 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:22.360 Black did is attend a bunch of auctions until he 214 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:25.919 created this one of a kind collections. And he financed 215 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.440 those pieces because they weren't cheap with money he made 216 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:30.080 from bitcoin. 217 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:32.879 So what does he have in there? 218 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:37.840 Rare Pokemon cards, a ship wrecked bounty, sports memorabilia, gold 219 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:44.200 precious metals, items owned or made by Pablo Picasso, George Washington, 220 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:49.360 items owned by George Washington, Amelia Earhart, and a bunch 221 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:55.360 of money, gold coins, etc. And the only item on 222 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.759 his wish lists that he couldn't get, as he describes it, 223 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:04.519 was one of Albert Einstein's pipes, which he lost in 224 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:09.360 a bidding war. Other than that, he got everything he wanted. 225 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:17.360 And I am so impressed with his thinking because the 226 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:23.320 combined prize value is more than two million dollars. Now 227 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:27.039 is he going to publish more than two million books? 228 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:30.840 Look at the publicity. 229 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:32.519 That he is getting. For example, there was an entire 230 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:33.519 segment on this show. 231 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:36.440 That's not to say zillions of people listening to this show, 232 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.320 but certainly you've got well, you used to have over 233 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.080 a million listening to the show, and then it went 234 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:45.840 down to several hundred thousand, and then it went down 235 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:48.600 to about seventy thousand. So for all four of you 236 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:53.240 that are still listening to this show, the book is 237 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:58.120 called There's Treasure Inside, and you too can go for 238 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:02.240 two million dollar. Well actually it's over five items, so 239 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:05.519 no one's going to get all five. It's if you 240 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:07.960 break it down, it's half a million dollars. That's kind 241 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:09.879 of fun, isn't it. 242 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:10.879 The treasure hunt. 243 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.080 I would do that if I had the money. Yeah, 244 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:16.559 my wife would not be happy about it. 245 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:17.399 But that's true. 246 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:21.399 That's what I think money is for, to do interesting things. 247 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:22.080 That's why he. 248 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:25.559 Did this, because he's made enough money and he goes, now, 249 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:26.919 I want to do something interesting. 250 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:29.559 We're not talking about playing golf or lolling at the beach. 251 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:31.639 He's going back to the time that he was a 252 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:35.879 kid and was really into these puzzle games. Good for him, 253 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:39.399 Good for him. Now a little bit of history that 254 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:42.320 I want to share with you, and that is toys, 255 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.639 toy giving and what do you do for Christmas for 256 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.120 your kids or Hanukkah? And if you look at the 257 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.000 toys and there were it toys, coveted toys that when 258 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.480 they become it's real problem for the toy industry because 259 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.519 all of these toy retailers. 260 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:00.000 Order months and months in advance, and what do you 261 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.039 I was going to hit or not. 262 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:08.639 So today they're sparkly, they're squeezable, they're electronic. But if 263 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:11.720 you go back, let's start with the nineteen fifties, the 264 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:15.720 hula hoop and the kushball. Now I never had a cushball, 265 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.759 but I've had everything else. The hula hoop, you know, 266 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.879 it's been around forever. And Whammo Fun Company, I mean 267 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:27.279 just completely crazy company. It came out with it out 268 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:29.679 of plastic, and all of a sudden they were selling 269 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.159 millions of them. Everybody had win in the country. In 270 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:37.759 nineteen fifty two, mister potato Head came out and I 271 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:39.919 followed a year later by missus potato Head. 272 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:42.240 And I remember having one of these, and it. 273 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:45.679 Turned out they were Originally you actually used a potato 274 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:49.000 and you would put the nose in the ears. 275 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:49.559 And plug them in. 276 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:51.360 And then they went to plastic, and then they become 277 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:56.000 no fun at all because potatoes are much more fun. 278 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:59.320 You know, different shapes and you can pretend you've got 279 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.519 an elephant, man and potato depending on the size of 280 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:08.440 the head, et cetera. Lincoln logs and matchbox cars came 281 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:09.480 out in the fifties. 282 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:13.120 Play dough came out. 283 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:16.200 In the fifties. Who didn't have play dough if you 284 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:19.919 were a kid in the fifties. Here's a little sidebar story. 285 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:25.440 Plato was invented in nineteen thirties as a wallpaper cleaner 286 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.159 until someone discovered oh. 287 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:30.399 Boy, playto. 288 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:35.960 And then in nineteen fifty nine there was a teenage 289 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:42.360 fashion model doll called Barbie, which may very well be 290 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:46.399 considered the icon certainly the iconic doll, and maybe the 291 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:51.000 iconic toy of the time. Also in the nineteen fifties 292 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:53.799 or this nineteen sixties. Now, remember the easy bake oven. 293 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.080 The easy bake oven was a toy oven that you 294 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:03.000 could actually bake little cakes, I mean for real, and 295 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.880 the heat was provided by a light bulb, a light bulb, 296 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.440 and you could actually bake something with it. Today you 297 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:14.000 can't do that because you don't have incandescent lights. All 298 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.319 you have is led lights. And if you try to 299 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.640 bake a little bit, a little tiny cake in an 300 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:22.680 easy bake oven today, you're baking for eight months and 301 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.000 it still hasn't finished cooking. 302 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:31.160 Remember etch a sketch and the light bright etch a sketch? 303 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:32.160 I remember it. 304 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:35.160 That was almost impossible to do an etch of sketch 305 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:38.720 with any round roundness to it. You could do straight 306 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:40.359 lines with an etch of sketch. 307 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:43.599 Yeah, you can't do circles. 308 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:48.279 It's people actually could Well, you could do something that 309 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:50.240 might resemble one. 310 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:52.000 Yeah, it's still kind of. 311 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.559 But yeah, if you don't know what etcha sketch is, 312 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:57.839 look it up, you know, go ahead. 313 00:17:57.559 --> 00:17:58.200 And google it. 314 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:02.359 And Hot Wheel debuted nineteen sixty eight. I didn't know 315 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:04.240 that long ago. I was not a Hot Wheels guy 316 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:08.720 because I'm not a car guy. But these little realistic 317 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:11.599 built to scale and it started with Camaros and Munstangs 318 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.359 and firebirds, and then they came out with everything. Nineteen 319 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:20.559 seventy seven Pong. Remember Pong, one of the earliest electronic games. 320 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:23.680 When you look at it and you go, really, this 321 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:28.359 was the start of video games. Atari went big in 322 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:31.759 nineteen seventy seven. That was the first home gaming console. 323 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:35.039 It cost about two hundred dollars then, which is about 324 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:40.079 one thousand dollars in today's currency. So someone some kid 325 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:43.960 getting an atari, some parent or uncle or grandparent spend 326 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:44.960 a thousand bucks on it. 327 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:50.920 The equivalent there was the nerf ball. I remember those shrinky, 328 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:52.559 shrinking dinks. 329 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:57.319 I'm not even go into that, because I will I 330 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:02.680 misconstrued that one hundred percent shrinking dinks. I thought it 331 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:06.599 had to do with weather when it's cold, and I'm 332 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.240 just not interested in explaining that. I do remember the 333 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:15.319 pet rock, Now, that was marketing genius. Somebody came up 334 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:19.559 with taking a box and putting straw in it and 335 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:25.119 putting in a rock, and then instructions on how to 336 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:28.319 feed your rock, and how to take care of your rock, 337 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:33.640 and how to be emotionally connected to your rock. 338 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:38.839 And it sold in the millions. 339 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:41.559 I think it was an advertising guy that came up 340 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:46.640 with that, if I'm not mistaken. Speak and Spell that 341 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:50.400 was Texas Instruments, and it was one of the first 342 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:55.519 predictive coding speech synthesizer. And the language was with this 343 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:03.480 talky robotic twist because early days voice were very robotic. Today, 344 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:08.359 of course, man, I got I'm getting these scam calls 345 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:14.440 that look that sounds so good that you know you answer, 346 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:16.920 I don't understand you know somebody who pitched something I 347 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:19.839 don't understand. Oh you don't understand, well, let me explain 348 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:23.279 it again. This is a this is an algorithm that's 349 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:23.680 doing that. 350 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:29.319 So I answered space spam calls. Hopefully I can talk 351 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:29.880 to someone. 352 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:36.240 So Star Wars action figures that was the earliest, earliest. 353 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:39.839 This is George, George Lucas and his genius. Not only 354 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:43.880 a brilliant, brilliant filmmaker. By the way, he would take 355 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:47.079 a year to write his movies, a year to write 356 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:51.559 those Star Wars movies, and then he would direct them. 357 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:55.599 And then he discovered early took a wild guess before 358 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:59.400 the movie was released. He cut deals for action figures 359 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:04.960 and tie ins before anyone else did that, and the 360 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:08.839 Star Wars action figures after the nineteen seventy seven release 361 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:13.359 of the original Star Wars went completely crazy. The Rubik's 362 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:17.359 Cube came out nineteen eighty and it was a Hungarian 363 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:22.000 architecture professor who invented in nineteen seventy four. Then, for 364 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:25.559 you little girls or you little boys who think they're 365 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:30.359 little girls, my little pony pound puppies care bears. Remember 366 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:34.640 the craziness with Cabbage Patch kids where mothers would get 367 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:39.039 into fist fights over cabbage patch kids and. 368 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.920 They were going for hundreds and hundreds of dollars. 369 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:48.319 Chia pets were great where you could actually grow animal figurines. 370 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:53.039 My favorite was a bald figuring that you planted these 371 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:57.680 little seeds and then you had this hair of grass. 372 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:01.440 I was big on thatchia yep. I remember that commercial 373 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:06.000 the Tamago cheese. The Tamaguccies Beanie Babies was another one 374 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:10.440 of those where for some reason, limited edition beanie babies 375 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:14.119 went for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars. An artificial market 376 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:20.519 was created Ferbies, which created an entire group of mentally 377 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:25.160 ill people who think they are ferbies, dressed like ferbies 378 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:26.960 and their world is furbies. 379 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:29.680 I want you to go to for those of you 380 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:30.039 that do. 381 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:32.279 That and you're looking for a job, go into the 382 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:36.079 job interview dressed as a Ferbie and see how well 383 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:40.000 that works out for you. And people spend thousands of 384 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:44.960 dollars on these costumes. I mean, and there's a whole cause, 385 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:50.920 there's a whole cosplay thing, Pokemon trading cards, PlayStation two, 386 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:55.119 Xbox three sixty of course, the Razor scooter. I had 387 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:55.880 one of those. 388 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:00.920 Juju pets. I think it is that a panda. I 389 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:05.599 don't know. I remember brats, those little dolls that talk 390 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:06.279 back to. 391 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:09.200 You, And didn't you call that your daughters? 392 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:12.599 I pretty well do. And so some of these toys 393 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:15.519 are just great fun. And these are the classics, and 394 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.799 some of them are still around. I think easy bake 395 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:21.920 ovens are kind of finished. Maybe they have a quartz 396 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:25.240 filament that the kids put their hands in and get 397 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:27.000 their degree burns when they're cooking. 398 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:27.519 I don't know. 399 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:33.039 All right, So there's a story now, because well it's 400 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:36.759 the holiday season and gifts are to be made and 401 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:40.799